Example sentences for: italian-

How can you use “italian-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The film follows an insulated Italian-American community in the Bronx during the summer of 1977, when the Son of Sam killer was terrorizing New York City.

  • In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the "unmeltable ethnic," that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.

  • A preening Italian-American sports agent (Al Palagonia) declares that he has no mob ties and that he resents being stereotyped, shortly before delivering a stereotypical (and very funny, Scorsese-esque) recitation of the luxuries (Ferraris, Rolexes, mansions) that await Jesus if he signs on the dotted line.

  • I think what I like best about that is not the attention the writers pay to the details of Italian-American sociology, not the witty bullshitting sessions among the members of the crew, and not the way the plot lines mess with genre expectations, so that the worst thing that can happen to Anthony Soprano Jr. is not that he gets beaten up by a school bully but that he doesn't get beaten up, because that means he learns that his classmates' parents are afraid of his father.

  • Martin Scorsese's brilliant Italian-American movies strive for, and often achieve, the altitude of classical tragedy--they tell the stories of heroes whose fates are the result of their own flawed natures.


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